In 2001, Wild Dingo began as a marketing communications consulting firm. Projects included logo design, brochures, Web sites and advertising. Since 2005, Wild Dingo has focused heavily on Web projects, combining skills in marcom, such as copywriting and content development with Web design and development. Wild Dingo has since evolved to providing complete creative Web solutions including e-commerce and shopping carts, social networking, design, content strategy and leveraging the most current solutions available to provide clients as much autonomy as they need to maintain their own Web site.
Wild Dingo is solely-owned and managed by Julie Starling whose qualifications include:
- Fifteen years in marketing communications, 9 of those years of corporate or agency experience.
- Marketing management and project management positions in technology and healthcare.
- Developed and written a wide range of communications materials:
- brochures
- creative briefs
- Web site content
- newsletters
- business plans
- sales proposals
- vision/mission statements
- manuals
- white papers
- case studies
- consumer and business-to-business product packaging
- Artistic director for creative teams for national campaigns
- Five years of Web development, mainly in design, content strategy, HTML and CSS.
- Six years of dog walking
Industry experience includes:
- healthcare & medical
- non profit
- technology
- business-to-business tecnology products and services
- consumer technology products and services
- GIS/digital mapping
- Web software
- sports/athletic services
- wellness & yoga
When working with Wild Dingo, the majority of the work will be completed by Julie. Occasionally, for large or complex projects, Julie will partner with other graphic designers, animation experts, or backend database experts in order to complete a project in a timely fashion. Because sometimes it really does take a village to build a Web site.
Education
M.A. Psychology/Wellness & Stress Management
University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
B.A. Psychology/Dance
Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, CT
Please request Julie’s resume to view details of her work history.
What’s with the Name Wild Dingo?
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Wild Dingo was founded by a dingo, Maggie Starling, searching for a means to reach her own desires: more walks, more bones and more attention. It didn’t take her long to understand that a home-based business would provide her just what she needed, so she convinced me to start this one. Maggie proved to be the perfect leader for a small organization —she was officious, demanded unreasonable requests and barked daily orders.
Her daily responsibilities included lounging, patrolling the territory for unusual individuals and adventures with her employee. Maggie was an avid adventure enthusiast, enjoying long daily walks, duck/cat/squirrel/skunk-chasing, kayak rides and trips to the pet store. She prided herself on agility and her own moral code. Anybody lucky enough to have met or known Maggie was well aware of where they stood with her. Maggie often claimed, “I’m not evil. I’m just misunderstood!”
Maggie had a co-founder and conspirator for office off-sites, Moosh, the friendliest but bravest labrador one could ever know. He served as Wild Dingo’s customer service representative who greeted people with his wagging tail and “fragrant” (not!) breath.
Unexpectedly, Wild Dingo became a daily lesson in achieving happiness (at least from a dingo’s perspective). Oddly enough, Maggie’s life lessons translated well for people too. Although Maggie is no longer with us, her legacy and particular business policies live on in her company, Wild Dingo. Read the real story about how Wild Dingo began and about Maggie’s legacy.
Maggie Starling
August 18, 1993-November 23, 2007